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Kansas Pacific · Beat 212 · permalink

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59:44–59:51 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:4659:46Frame at 59:4959:49

Play from 59:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 353–354. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing light collared shirt visible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and checkered shirt visible
  • older man, white hair, wearing dark cap and striped coat visible
  • man, wearing dark hat and plain shirt, holding paper visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand side by side, one holding a paper and looking at it. [frame:2]
Seen
paper [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:1], dark cap [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: business deal, Western frontier, tension; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period Western costumes

Two people converse in a wooden interior; a man holds a paper while another man looks on. A line of dialogue states they are in business and just in time.

“We're in business, all right, and just in time.” 59:46 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Kansas Pacific (1953) at 59:46 (passage 59:44–59:51); US record: No renewal found

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